Historic Photographers of Oregon (1851-1900)
Historic Photographers of Oregon (1851-1900) This is a list of photographers who worked in Oregon between 1851 and 1900. Right now there is not a lot of other information about...
August 28th – Today in Oregon History
August 28th – Today in Oregon History 1970 – The first day of the week long Vortex I Music festival started. Planned by Governor McCall as a way to keep...
July 25 – Today in Oregon History
July 25 – Today in Oregon History 1850 – Gold is discovered in Oregon for the first time, sparking a gold rush to the Rogue River.
June 1st – Today in Oregon History
June 1st – Today in Oregon History 1905 – The Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition opens in Portland. It is so successful that Portland’s population doubles in the next decade...
January 28th – Today in Oregon History
January 28th – Today in Oregon History 1965 – After heavy rainfall through December (1964) and early January (1965) across the entire West Coast, a landslide hits Mapleton Oregon’s “downtown”....
Today in Oregon History
Today in Oregon History Today in Oregon history is an attempt to highlight the important events that happened in Oregon History. Mostly this is a vanity project for myself to...
January 9th – Today in Oregon History
January 9th – Today in Oregon History 1880 – The Great Gale devastates parts of Oregon and Washington with heavy snow and high speed winds.
Bridal Veil Cemetery
Bridal Veil Cemetery This cemetery served the nearby town of Bridal Veil, effectively now a ghost town itself. The cemetery is located between where the mill was and the actual...
Wildcat Covered Bridge (Wild Cat Covered Bridge)- Lane County, Oregon
Wildcat Covered Bridge I thought I had visited every covered bridge in Oregon. Until a chance glance over the side of the road while driving Highway 126 attracted my eye...
Margaret Windsor Iman’s autobiography
This is the second of two versions of Margaret Windsor Iman’s autobiography. This one was updated and published in 1954 by the Skamania Historical Society. Read the first version here...
Felix G. Iman – Stevenson Washington
Felix G. Iman – Stevenson Washington Traveling through Skamania County Recently, and stopping at the excellent Columbia Gorge Interpretive Center, revealed a number of interesting local history connections. One of...
Iman Cemetery
Iman Cemetery The Iman Cemetery is in Stevenson Washington. It was established near the North East Corner of the Iman Donation Land Claim in 1901 as the family plot of...
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